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Dates: during 2000-2009
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When it comes to prescription drugs for the needy elderly, the first experiment with the free market has yet to work. Nevada last March invited hundreds of insurance companies to bid on its new program providing drug coverage for low- and moderate-income people age 62 and older, but only one insurer responded--and it was disqualified because it was not licensed to do business in the state. Nevada reworked its plan, making clearer what it expected of the companies, and got five proposals in time for a second deadline, in August. The state is reviewing the proposals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Issues 2000: Bush and Gore: Whose Pill Is Sweetest? | 9/18/2000 | See Source »

...knew I'd fail in my promise to be a full-fledged, art-producing participant at this year's Burning Man festival--the temporary Mad Max-inspired city made up of 30,000 neo-hippies camped out on a lifeless, mud-caked playa in Nevada the week before Labor Day for no better reason than they forgot to get a beach share. And as I feared, I showed up at the desert last week hopelessly unprepared, without so much as an alien costume or a didgeridoo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Armpit Of Nevada | 9/11/2000 | See Source »

...getting oral sex in the Oval Office? Doesn't bother me," said Raymond Mora, a 26-year-old Hispanic who was doing well enough in life to be in the latter stages of a bar-hop that encompassed most of California and Nevada. "How's the country running? Fine, right? That's all I care about." This was a guy whose admitted only impression of the Gore convention was that Rage Against the Machine had been ill-served by the L.A. police, and he had absolutely no problem with a Gore presidency. "Under Clinton, the economy's great. Might...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Parting Shot: I, Undecided | 8/21/2000 | See Source »

...getting oral sex in the Oval Office? Doesn't bother me," said Raymond Mora, a 26-year-old Hispanic who was doing well enough in life to be in the latter stages of a bar-hop that encompassed most of California and Nevada. "How's the country running? Fine, right? That's all I care about." This was a guy whose admitted only impression of the Gore convention was that Rage Against the Machine had been ill-served by the L.A. police, and he had absolutely no problem with a Gore presidency. "Under Clinton, the economy's great. Might...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Parting Shot: I, Undecided | 8/20/2000 | See Source »

Such competition may be one reason for the p.r. skirmish, but another factor is the rising cost of gasoline. "All of a sudden people are saying, 'Oh, my gosh, what a horrible price to fill up my tank!'" says Senator Richard Bryan, a Nevada Democrat who is pushing for tougher gas-mileage rules. "Fuel economy has crept back onto the radar screen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Green Was My SUV | 8/14/2000 | See Source »

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